2nd & 3rd Congress: Part 2, Panel 4
Panel 4 | “How we reckon: A look at reckonings around the different characters of the Second and Third Congress, and what we/they can learn from this” Eugenics has been by and large discredited as a science, but the names, memories and influences of the eugenicists that helped to instigate such a movement, still occupy our public places, our university buildings, our state buildings, and our institutional legacies. This unprecedented panel, will share the experiences of different institutions grappling with their own legacies of different eugenicists present at the Second and Third Congress. This is preceded by a collective discussion, chaired by Marcy Darnovsky, between those who have been directly involved in such reckonings. They share the lessons learnt from such experiences, and make practical suggestions for reckoning processes in other similarly placed institutions.
Presenters
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Marcy Darnovsky
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Christopher Donohoue
Historian at the National Human Genome Research Institute
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Rena Heinrich
Rena M. Heinrich is an assistant professor of theatre practice in critical studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Her teaching and areas of expertise include interculturalism; race, representation, and gender in performance; postcolonial theater; Asian and Asian American drama; acting; ethnography; and performance studies.
As an artist, her theatrical work has been produced in Los Angeles by the John Anson Ford Theatre, The Latino Theater Company, East West Players, Company of Angels, Playwrights’ Arena, TeAda Productions, Artists at Play, Casa 0101, and Highways Performance Space among others. She directed the nationally-touring production of Refugee Nation at Intermedia Arts/Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis and co-directed its critically acclaimed production at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Her directorial work on So the Arrow Flies was presented internationally at the Arts Council Korea’s Performing Arts Series in Seoul, and her original production of Kokoro (True Heart) is featured in the Dramatist Play Service published version. As an actor, she has appeared on daytime and prime time television with CBS, USA, NBC and FOX.
Her current book project, Race and Role: The Mixed-race Asian Experience in American Drama explores the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theatre from the late-19th Century to the present day.
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David McIntosh
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Tom Stevens
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Zach Utz
Archivist at the National Human Genome Research Institute
Marcy Darnovsky
Christopher Donohoue
Historian at the National Human Genome Research Institute
Rena Heinrich
Rena M. Heinrich is an assistant professor of theatre practice in critical studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Her teaching and areas of expertise include interculturalism; race, representation, and gender in performance; postcolonial theater; Asian and Asian American drama; acting; ethnography; and performance studies.
As an artist, her theatrical work has been produced in Los Angeles by the John Anson Ford Theatre, The Latino Theater Company, East West Players, Company of Angels, Playwrights’ Arena, TeAda Productions, Artists at Play, Casa 0101, and Highways Performance Space among others. She directed the nationally-touring production of Refugee Nation at Intermedia Arts/Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis and co-directed its critically acclaimed production at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Her directorial work on So the Arrow Flies was presented internationally at the Arts Council Korea’s Performing Arts Series in Seoul, and her original production of Kokoro (True Heart) is featured in the Dramatist Play Service published version. As an actor, she has appeared on daytime and prime time television with CBS, USA, NBC and FOX.
Her current book project, Race and Role: The Mixed-race Asian Experience in American Drama explores the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theatre from the late-19th Century to the present day.
David McIntosh
Tom Stevens
Zach Utz
Archivist at the National Human Genome Research Institute